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The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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